Re: git /objects directory created 755 by default?

Martin Langhoff [off-list ref] writes:

I think I owe you an apology and a couple of beers...

Nah, you do not owe me anything.  Does something like this look
good?

-- >8 --
[PATCH] A shared repository should be writable by members.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>

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diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
index 1683f0b..1b85cab 100644
--- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt

@@ -1625,7 +1625,9 @@ cooperation you are probably more famili
 For this, set up a public repository on a machine that is
 reachable via SSH by people with "commit privileges".  Put the
 committers in the same user group and make the repository
-writable by that group.
+writable by that group.  Make sure their umasks are set up to
+allow group members to write into directories other members
+have created.
 
 You, as an individual committer, then:
 

On 12/21/05, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Martin Langhoff [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I think I owe you an apology and a couple of beers...

Nah, you do not owe me anything.  Does something like this look
good?

Yup, makes sense to me. I often explain it as "same file permissions
and access model as you'd use with CVS".

cheers,


martin